[mdlug] Disable IPv6?

Wojtak, Greg GregWojtak at quickenloans.com
Tue May 15 14:01:38 EDT 2007


I had added this to my modprobe.conf.  I forgot to mention that in my
original post.


On 5/15/07 12:13 PM, "Jonathan Billings" <billings at negate.org> wrote:

> Wojtak, Greg wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to completely disable IPv6 in Red Hate (short of
>> recompiling)?  I¹ve followed the KB articles and still the ipv6 modules
>> shows up in a lsmod and my interfaces have IPv6 addresses assigned to them.
>> sit0 still shows up.  I have put INITIPV6=no in my ifcfg-<ifname> files, and
>> put NETWORKING_IPV6=no in /etc/sysconfig/network.  Still it persists.
> 
> I have this in my /etc/modprobe.conf:
> # Disable IPv6
> alias net-pf-10 off
> 
> This'll tell the kernel to not even bother loading the IPv6 module.
> 



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